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-I really hate how the anime is trying to cram Gonbe down our throats. I swear, it's like everytime they want someone to do something mischevious, they have Gonbe come out, complete with "Aw, what is that little rascal up to this time?" music. I haven't been this annoyed by a pokemon since Togepi.

Agreed. Very much so infact. Unfortunalty, this sort of thing is more than likely going to run as regular as clockwork.

Anyways, the episode itself didn't really impress me that much. It was pretty standard actually, and I can't think of any scenes that stood out too much, apart from Team Rocket actually falling for that whole Golden Pokéball ploy (you have to feel sorry for them. They try so hard) and the expected chasing of the Ban'nai stuff. A pretty forgettable affair really.
I'm glad the music was (for the most part) back to how it should be. None of that plinky-plonky crap playing in the background, apart from that one Gonbe scene. A scene obviously intended to be 'funny', yet failing miserably.

Did anyone find it strange that during the entire battle between Team Rocket near the end of the episode, that Seviper and Cacnea were kind of just...floating in the air the entire time? I mean, they've done this sort of thing before, but for some reason it was really noticable this time around.
OMG, Seviper gotz da LEVITATE ABILITAY!

I thought this episode was pretty good. It was cool how the whole thing took place on board the ship. It seems like we have a lot of episodes that begin or end on a ship, but they're never actually on it for a substantial amount of time, it's just a plot device to get them from place to place. And since it's my first time seeing Bannai in action, I found him to be a pretty interesting character. One thing that I noticed though- so he's the master of disguise and all that, but I'd like to know how he changes the shape of his eyes. :P

Was it just me, or was Bannai voiced by the same seiyuu as Buson? I swear, it was the laugh that made me take notice. I swear it was his.

Anyway, my thoughts on this episode. Good/Bad:

Good:

1) Bannai. Good stuff. I haven't seen his episode, but I liked him in this, and it's certainly nice to see that they have kept one of them 'alive' after totally messing up the whole Team Magma/Aqua thing. I'm going to assume that the outfit he was wearing is his normal, outside-of-Team-Magma-outfit. If it is, then... *heart* It's hot. Especially with the midriff thing he has going on, like Harley.

2) The whole Golden Monster Ball affair. May and Max did the best out of all of them... Brock just ended up looking like a moron, to be honest. ;_;

3) Giovanni. Am I right in saying that it was James doing Giovanni's 'voice' this time? Or was it just Giovanni's normal voice, instead of Meowth's? XD

4) Golbat. I don't know... I just liked seeing Bannai with a Golbat. No Ditto this time though, which was a shame. It would have been cool if Bannai had just it to be Growlithe.

5) Chimecho in a sailor hat! Adorable. :3

Bad Points:

1) THAT music again. The one in the Gonbe scene. It sucks. WHY DO THEY KEEP ON USING IT.

2) Gonbe. I've given the little guy a chance, and I still think he sucks. The one in the 7th Movie= Good. This one= Bad.

3) The Team Rocket battle. I'm sorry, but Gravy is right. Them FLOATING in Mid-Air really stuck out this time, and I for one really did not appreciate it.

4) Bannai giving the Ribbon Cup back to Jenny. WHY? Unless he's planning to come back at some point in the Grand Festival, which would be very interesting.

In all... I'd say... 6-7 out of 10. It would be a definate 7 if THAT music hadn't been played.

Was it just me, or was Bannai voiced by the same seiyuu as Buson? I swear, it was the laugh that made me take notice. I swear it was his.

Ban'nai is voiced by Konishi Katsuyuki, who is the voice of Heracross, Heigani, Sabonea, and Thunder in the second movie. Buson is voiced by Hiyama Nobuyuki, who I don't think has done any other work for Pocket Monsters, but he does have a lot of experience in voice acting.

EDIT: Ah, Dephender beat me to it.

3) Giovanni. Am I right in saying that it was James doing Giovanni's 'voice' this time? Or was it just Giovanni's normal voice, instead of Meowth's? XD

Yeah, that was Kojirou's voice. I meant to mention that in my review, since I don't think the anime's done that before.

I thought he sounded different from Mewtwo Strikes Back. However, it's been a while since I watched something with Sakaki actually speaking, and it never occured to me that that was Kojirou doing his voice, considering it's Nyaasu always doing the impressions and that voice was obviously not his.

Yup, classes again. I'm gonna be at this for a while.

I translate for #Pocketmonsters (just because I know Japanese does not make me Japanese, stop PMing me).

Brody is a cool character. I haven't seen him prior to this episode, as I missed the Weather Institute episode.

His voice is pretty good, too. Sounded a bit off at times, but oh well.

The animation was pretty good in this episode, as opposed to the episode that follows ._.

Heh, did anyone else see the Dugtrio in the ballpit? One must wonder how it got there without being seen

Munchlax makes me laugh every time I really don't see what people have against it, it's a cool and funny Pokémon.

The transmitter trick thing was rather out of the blue, but it was a good idea. Even better, Brody figured it out after a while. Would've been rather cliché if they had caught him just by continually tracking him down.

Brody's incredibly quick at changing disguises. My only explanation is the he's dressed as a new person underneath and just pulls off his current disguise.

I lol'd pretty hard at Brock distinguishing between the two Jennies. Comedy gold right there

Yes. Jenny definitely has a new voice. I also thought she sounded like a guy. At first I thought it might have been Brody, but after Brock did his whole "Officer Jenny" scene I knew it couldn't be Brody.